Virtual machines can exploit Intel ISA characterstics to cause functional denial of service to the VMM. This series introduces a new feature named Notify VM exit, which can help mitigate such kind of attack. Patch 1: An extension of KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS ioctl to inject a synthesized shutdown event from user space. This is also a fix for other synthesized triple fault, e.g. the RSM patch or nested_vmx_abort(), which could get lost when exit to userspace to do migrate. Patch 2: The main patch to enable Notify VM exit. Patch 3: Add document for the new KVM capability and KVM exit reason. --- Change logs: v4 -> v5 - rename KVM_VCPUEVENTS_SHUTDOWN to KVM_VCPUEVENTS_TRIPLE_FAULT. Make it bidirection and add it to get_vcpu_events. (Sean) - v4: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220310084001.10235-1-chenyi.qiang@xxxxxxxxx/ v3 -> v4 - Change this feature to per-VM scope. (Jim) - Once VM_CONTEXT_INVALID set in exit_qualification, exit to user space notify this fatal case, especially the notify VM exit happens in L2. (Jim) - extend KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS to allow user space to inject a shutdown event. (Jim) - A minor code changes. - Add document for the new KVM capability. - v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220223062412.22334-1-chenyi.qiang@xxxxxxxxx/ v2 -> v3 - add a vcpu state notify_window_exits to record the number of occurence as well as a pr_warn output. (Sean) - Add the handling in nested VM to prevent L1 bypassing the restriction through launching a L2. (Sean) - Only kill L2 when L2 VM is context invalid, synthesize a EXIT_REASON_TRIPLE_FAULT to L1 (Sean) - To ease the current implementation, make module parameter notify_window read-only. (Sean) - Disable notify window exit by default. - v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210525051204.1480610-1-tao3.xu@xxxxxxxxx/ v1 -> v2 - Default set notify window to 0, less than 0 to disable. - Add more description in commit message. --- Chenyi Qiang (2): KVM: X86: Save&restore the triple fault request KVM: Add document for KVM_CAP_X86_NOTIFY_VMEXIT and KVM_EXIT_NOTIFY Tao Xu (1): KVM: VMX: Enable Notify VM exit Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 5 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h | 7 +++++ arch/x86/include/asm/vmxfeatures.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/vmx.h | 4 ++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/capabilities.h | 6 ++++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 17 ++++++++++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++-- arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 5 ++++ include/uapi/linux/kvm.h | 7 +++++ 12 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.17.1
